Georgios Papandreou is favored to win the Greek elections scheduled for April, 1967.

Two days before the elections, a group of colonels—members of the conservative faction about whom Papandreou expressed misgivings two years earlier—stages a coup d’etat and institutes military rule under the claim of protecting Greece from Communism.

The leader of the colonels, Georgios Papadopoulos, has been on the CIA payroll for 15 years.

The dictatorship, allegedly directed by the CIA’s secret Operation Prometheus, imprisons its opponents and imposes rigid contriols on all aspects of Greek life.

The junta briefly jails Georgios Papandreou; his son Andreas goes into exile again.

Constantine II goes into exile after he fails in his December, 1967 attempt to overthrow the military government.